Nefertiti is the second Ancient Egyptian figurehead to feature on our list whose mummy has undergone reconstruction. We were already disappointed by Tutankhamun, but it's safe to say that Queen Nefertiti's beauty is timeless. There's no wonder that the statue of her bust ended up in so many people's living rooms. Astonishingly, the statute was very true to her divine form.
However, it turned out that after Nefertiti's glorious face was reconstructed there was quite the race debate as critics flooded in to argue that she had been whitewashed. Which actually seems pretty likely. Considering the fact that she lived in Egypt, you'd think that they would be able to get the color of her skin right since they spent over 500 hours creating the model from her 3400-year-old mummy that was discovered in 1898.